Is there a way to turn on cell tower positioning, in addition to GPS, without also turning on WiFi?
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I've found I cannot connect to Facebook sometimes, upload pictures to skydrive, or use xbox live, and find my phone only kinda works sometimes. Am I missing something? I set up my LIVE account and Facebook account during initial setup.
You are connected to Wi-Fi or 3G when you try these things right?
If you're using 3G while doing these things, it's possible that you are having some weak signal strength in your area which is probably not enough to connect to those services.
I've been doing these things over a strong 3G signal. The data connection drops in and out. Sometimes turning on airplane mode then turning it back off will restore data. However, it shows 3G the entire time. I have no visual cue that the data isn't working unless I try connecting to a service and it errors out.
seanlindo06 said:
I've been doing these things over a strong 3G signal. The data connection drops in and out. Sometimes turning on airplane mode then turning it back off will restore data. However, it shows 3G the entire time. I have no visual cue that the data isn't working unless I try connecting to a service and it errors out.
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Do you have the same issues with a wifi connection?
If I have just my cell radio enabled, then I enable the WiFi - does the phone disable the data on the cell radio, or leave both enabled?
If both are enabled, then is it bridged or not? In other words, when I have my WiFi on, will I get the speed of my WifI + Cell service?
If the data connection is not bridged, then it seems pretty silly to have WiFi options on location apps, like Latitude, since this means that if you lose the WiFi connection, the phone will not know to switch back to the cell data connection.
No when wifi is enabled the phone has no use for 3g so it disables it until u turn wifi off. Oh and I use an app called quick settings from the market cause u can manually turn off everything with it and makes ur battery last way longer too
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First, I apologize if this question has been covered before. I've searched extensively but sometimes I miss the obvious.
I'm trying to find a way to have my phone automatically disconnect itself from my router when the signal is weak without turning off the wifi radio. I've found apps that automatically turn off the radio when the signal is weak, then intermittently turn it back on to see if the signal has improved, but this isn't exactly what I'm looking for.
There are certain areas in my house (and backyard) where my phone still sees the router, but the signal is so poor the 3G is actually (significantly) faster. But Android doesn't switch you over to 3G until the wifi signal is actually lost.
I know if you leave the range of your router but leave the radio on, the 3G takes over automatically and the wifi radio runs in the background, silently searching for a connection. So is there any way to use this functionality to tell your phone to disconnect the wifi automatically if the signal is incredibly weak (but still connected)?
My first thought was to set up a Tasker profile of some kind, but I haven't had any luck. Any suggestions?
Unfortunately connecting/disconnecting wifi using Tasker is not possible.
when I owed droid X I had the same issue, I flashed custom baseband and it helped
not sure if this should be asked in general discuss or the q&a section so yeah...
I wanted to refresh my WiFi signal on my tablet so I put it to airplane mode, but accidently i slid the wifi back on WITH airplane mode still active. so... basically I'm running on both airplane and WiFi at the same time?
** seems Bluetooth,NFC,Location and GPS can all be turned on without deactivating the airplane mode.....
usually airplane mode shuts off all data and or radio frequencies on a device right? so what's the point of airplane mode? on a WiFi only device?
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In theory - airplane mode should switch off all transmitters.
I typically do that on my cell phone, then enable wifi for use in my house.
I view Airplane mode as a Master Off, with individual services able to be turned on even if it is in Airplane Mode.
Its always been so. Airplane maode turns off the radio, not wifi, bluetooth and so on. the confusion occures because our current generation devices usually have same chips and antenna for them.
Basically, radio signals emitted from cellphone can alter/affect the reading in airplane(and other things that run on radio, bt wifi, bluetooth run on far different frequency waves and thus are allowed in aviation and thus not controlled by airplane mode.
I upgraded to another phone, but the DX is still receiving cell signal (probably roaming), is there a way to permanently turn off the radio other than using airplane mode?
Also, the Wifi currently have a very poor connectivity with my school's 802.1x network (takes multiple tries to connect/randomly disconnect even with good signal), is there a way to improve/fix this? It worked very well at my home wifi network.